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U.S. President Donald Trump connected Thursday (September 25, 2025) announced a caller circular of tariffs, saying the United States volition enforce a 100% tariff connected imported branded drugs, 25% tariff connected imports of each heavy-duty trucks and 50% tariff connected room cabinets.
Mr. Trump besides said helium would commencement charging a 30% tariff connected upholstered furnishings adjacent week.
He said the caller heavy-duty motortruck tariffs were to support manufacturers from "unfair extracurricular competition" and said the determination would payment companies specified arsenic Paccar-owned Peterbilt and Kenworth and Daimler Truck-owned Freightliner.
Mr. Trump has launched galore nationalist information probes into imaginable caller tariffs connected a wide assortment of products.
He said the caller tariffs connected kitchen, bath and immoderate furnishings were due to the fact that of immense levels of imports which were hurting section manufacturers.
"The crushed for this is the ample standard “FLOODING” of these products into the United States by different extracurricular Countries," Mr. Trump said, citing nationalist information concerns astir U.S. manufacturing.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce urged the section not to enforce caller tariffs, noting the apical 5 import sources are Mexico, Canada, Japan, Germany, and Finland "all of which are allies oregon adjacent partners of the United States posing nary menace to U.S. nationalist security."
Mexico is the largest exporter of medium- and heavy-duty trucks to the United States. A survey released successful January said imports of those larger vehicles from Mexico person tripled since 2019.
Higher tariffs connected commercialized vehicles could enactment unit connected proscription costs conscionable arsenic Trump has vowed to trim inflation, particularly connected user goods specified arsenic groceries.
Tariffs could besides impact Chrysler-parent Stellantis which produces heavy-duty Ram trucks and commercialized vans successful Mexico. Sweden's Volvo Group is gathering a $700 cardinal heavy-truck mill successful Monterrey, Mexico, owed to commencement operations successful 2026.
Mexico is location to 14 manufacturers and assemblers of buses, trucks, and tractor trucks, and 2 manufacturers of engines, according to the U.S. International Trade Administration.
The state is besides the starring planetary exporter of tractor trucks, 95% of which are destined for the United States.
"We request our Truckers to beryllium financially steadfast and strong, for galore reasons, but supra each else, for National Security purposes!," Trump added.
Mexico opposed caller tariffs, telling the Commerce Department successful May that each Mexican trucks exported to the United States person connected mean 50% U.S. content, including diesel engines.
Last year, the United States imported astir $128 cardinal successful dense conveyance parts from Mexico, accounting for astir 28% of full U.S. imports, Mexico said.
The Japanese Automobile Manufacturers Association besides opposed caller tariffs, saying Japanese companies person chopped exports to the United States arsenic they person boosted U.S. accumulation of medium- and heavy-duty trucks.
